Tunahan Durmaz (b. 1992, Bartin, Turkey) is a fifth-year Ph.D. researcher in the Department of History at European University Institute, Florence. He was a fellow at Koç University's Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) in 2024-2025 academic year. He is also the 2025 recipient of Andreas Tietze Memorial Fellowship at University of Vienna, Department of Near Eastern Studies.

His research interests include social, cultural, and political aspects of disease and illness in the early modern Ottoman world. Emerging at the intersection of histories of knowledge and history of medicine, his dissertation project “Mood, Appetite, and Fever: Understanding Disease in Ottoman Istanbul (1640-1691)” explores the ways of knowing and understanding diseases in the Ottoman world from the 1640s to the 1690s.

Durmaz comes from a diverse background of humanities encompassing not only history but also history of art & architecture. He earned his B.A. (with honors) in History and Architecture (minor; concentration in Architectural Culture) at Middle East Technical University in June 2016, and then pursued his master’s studies at Sabanci University where he received an M.A. degree in History in February 2019 with his thesis titled “Family, Companions, and Death: Seyyid Hasan Nûrî Efendi’s Microcosm (1661-1665)”.